Living in Community, Writing Alone I

13th April 2006 with 1 Comment

‘I’m in love with somebody else, as well as you,’ he had told her. ‘As well as you . . .’ All that honesty. All that pain. Very seventies.

Those lines from David Armstrong’s novel, Thought for the Day, made me think about that decade. Where I was and what I was doing [...]

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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. Philip Roth

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